3 Bellerby Drive, Ouston, Chester Le Street DH2 1TW

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 126 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

D → C for £423 · £423 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting—£23£54.2 yrs+0.1 pts
Heating controls—£350 – £450£458.9 yrs+0.9 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond C)—£1,500 – £3,500£7632.9 yrs+1.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)—£11,000 – £20,000£11550+ yrs+2.4 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£1,480
per year at grade D
£1,239
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £50 a year — a 11.8% annual return on £423.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £903 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

1 August 2014£215,000
14 June 2007£220,000
7 December 2001£120,000
29 October 1998£108,000
10 April 1995£89,000

Estimated today: £308,503 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bellerby Drive: 93 sales since 1995 · £272,178 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Ouston Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi—
St Benet's Catholic Primary School, OustonPrimary0.6 mi—
Kibblesworth AcademyPrimary1.1 mi—
Lord Lawson of Beamish AcademySecondary1.5 miProgress 8 -0.28 · below average (2023/24)
Oxclose Community AcademySecondary2.5 miProgress 8 -0.37 · below average (2023/24)
Grace CollegeSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 -1.07 · well below average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

3.5
crimes a month
21
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 57% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020623, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bellerby Drive

How this home sits against its street.

49
graded homes
64.6
average score
D
most common grade
+3.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.